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  2. Simpson's rule - Wikipedia

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    The formula above is obtained by combining the composite Simpson's 1/3 rule with the one consisting of using Simpson's 3/8 rule in the extreme subintervals and Simpson's 1/3 rule in the remaining subintervals. The result is then obtained by taking the mean of the two formulas.

  3. Slash (punctuation) - Wikipedia

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    The slash is a slanting line punctuation mark /.It is also known as a stroke, a solidus, a forward slash and several other historical or technical names.Once used as the equivalent of the modern period and comma, the slash is now used to represent division and fractions, as a date separator, or to connect alternative terms.

  4. Ideal gas law - Wikipedia

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    Isotherms of an ideal gas for different temperatures. The curved lines are rectangular hyperbolae of the form y = a/x. They represent the relationship between pressure (on the vertical axis) and volume (on the horizontal axis) for an ideal gas at different temperatures: lines that are farther away from the origin (that is, lines that are nearer to the top right-hand corner of the diagram ...

  5. First Opium War - Wikipedia

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    The First Opium War (Chinese: 第一次鴉片戰爭; pinyin: Dìyīcì yāpiàn zhànzhēng), also known as the Anglo-Chinese War, was a series of military engagements fought between the British Empire and the Qing dynasty of China between 1839 and 1842.

  6. Morse code - Wikipedia

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    Chart of the Morse code 26 letters and 10 numerals [1]. This Morse key was originally used by Gotthard railway, later by a shortwave radio amateur [2]. Morse code is a telecommunications method which encodes text characters as standardized sequences of two different signal durations, called dots and dashes, or dits and dahs.

  7. Tartan - Wikipedia

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    The English and Scots word tartan is possibly derived from French tiretaine meaning 'linsey-woolsey cloth'. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Other hypotheses are that it derives from Scottish Gaelic tarsainn or tarsuinn , meaning 'across' or 'crossing over'; [ 3 ] [ 4 ] or from French tartarin or tartaryn (occurring in 1454 spelled tartyn ) [ 5 ] meaning ...

  8. Bulgarian Turks - Wikipedia

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    Significantly 1882 was the peak year for the sale of larger Turkish properties in Rumelia, though the sale of such properties continued steadily throughout the first half of the 1880s. From the end of the war to the summer of 1880 only six large Turkish chifliks in Eastern Rumelia had been sold but the five years before union with the ...

  9. British Raj - Wikipedia

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    Likewise, finished goods from England, were transported back for sale in the burgeoning Indian markets. [39] Unlike Britain, where the market risks for the infrastructure development were borne by private investors, in India, it was the taxpayers—primarily farmers and farm-labourers—who endured the risks, which, in the end, amounted to £50 ...